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Hollywood Iranian Filmmakers Association (HIFA) launch
On November 18th, the Hollywood Iranian Filmmakers Association (HIFA) had their launch party and red carpet event in West Hollywood, where they screened some of their members films. The films scr MORE >> |
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Introducing Yara Shahidi
9-year old Yara Shahidi will make her theatrical debut June 12, 2009, starring opposite Eddie Murphy, in Paramount Picture’s “Imagine THAT”. Her talent can be seen in her portrayal as Murphy’s da MORE >> |
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Mona’s Dream
Human Rights is a delicate issue that hardly needs dramatization to draw attention. It is something to which we can all relate to, regardless of our backgrounds, political opinions or convictions MORE >> |
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The House of Saddam
A wealthy-looking man is sat on a huge golden throne surrounded by well-dressed members of his family, who wouldn't look out of place in US soap Dynasty - but this is no ordinary man. This is MORE >> |
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Iran Man!
Yinsen: [gazing at a helmet] That doesn't look like a missile... What are you building, Stark? Tony Stark: I'm working on something big. Tony Stark: You got a family? Yinsen: Yes, and I w MORE >> |
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Gone With the Wing: TCM Making Of Documentary
TCM’s originally produced documentary, Gone With The Wind: The Making of the Musical details the hard work and dedication that has made it possible for this epic American Civil War story to be ad MORE >> |
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Sophie's Choice
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.” - Albert Camus (1913-1960), French writer & ph MORE >> |
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Just Wanna Be Your Teddy Bear!
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movies by prominent Iranian filmmakers were screened and competed for the Top
Golden Bear Prize and several other categories including for Best Actor in at
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Winds Of Change
' Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! '
Clark Gable famous tagline as Rhett Butler in Victor Fleming’s Gone With the Wind (1939)
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Happy Conclusion for Child Stars of The Kite Runner
Marc Forster’s upcoming film the Kite Runner based on Afghan American author Khaled Hosseini was subject to some controversy in Afghanistan for endangering the lives of one of the major child act MORE >> |
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A Persian Phantom UnMasked
I have always greatly admired Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical shows, From Jesus Christ SuperStar, Evita to Cats all have been great international success’ for more than three decades running regula MORE >> |
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Deneuve Wants To See
It seems that French Stars are drawn to the Orient in recent years. Juliette Binoche is to team up with Abbas Kiarostami in an upcoming film by the Iranian film Maestro and Marjane Satrapi’ MORE >> |
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Secret Lives
Currently in post production a French film entitled Les Femmes de L'ombre aka Female Agents is an all star cast of French (Sophie MARCEAU, Julie DEPARDIEU, Marie GILLAIN, Déborah FRANCOIS) an MORE >> |
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Persian Recruits in Charlie Wilson's War
Iranian American actors, Navid Negahban, Mehrdad Sarlak, Anthony Azizi and Nazanin Boniadi have just finished working on Hollywood director Mike Nichols latest movie Charlie Wilson's War MORE >> |
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Persian Kite Runners
German Hollywood director Marc Foster of the excellent Finding Neverland has just finished post production of his latest film Based on the The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The Story of The Kit MORE >> |
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Fardin's Western Spaghetti
The Year 1968 was certainly one of the strangest one’s of the Swinging 60’s. Man had not yet walked on the Moon but there were signs of change in nearly all aspects of Western Society and Popular MORE >> |
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Pasdar Fever Hits France
« My parents, Rosemarie my German mother and Homayoon my Iranian father are my real life heroes; they went through more difficult things in life than I ever did »
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Nazanin Boniadi Said to Cast in Iron Man
In a recent report I had announced that Fansites in the US had announced that Shaun Toub was to be cast as the Comic Book Super Villian The Mandarin However it seems that the Iranian American act MORE >> |
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Shohreh Aghdashloo As Saddam’s Wife
According to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO Films and the BBC are co-producing a four-hour miniseries that recounts the 24-year reign of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.The four-part miniseries, title MORE >> |
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A Persian Bella Ragazza
Maya Sansa was born in 1975 in Rome, to an Iranian and an Italian. She studied dramatic Arts in school and later English Literature and Art at Cambridge and for three years she attended the Guild MORE >> |
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